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Russian Strikes Hit Six Major Power Substations, Leaving Outages in Eight Ukrainian Regions
By Maya Wilson
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Russian forces struck six major power substations across Ukraine overnight into Wednesday, November 11, and damaged power lines at various voltage levels, Prime Minister Koretskyi said in a statement reported by Ukraine’s national news agency Ukrinform.
By Wednesday morning, some electricity consumers in eight Ukrainian regions were without power following the attacks, according to a companion Ukrinform report. The reports did not identify the six substations or name the affected regions, and provided no figures for the number of consumers experiencing outages.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia, having failed to achieve its objectives on the battlefield, had shifted its focus to operations targeting civilians. He accused Moscow of using winter as a weapon of pressure, Ukrinform reported.
The overnight attacks also included a Russian strike on energy infrastructure in the southern Odesa region, where a woman was killed, according to separate reporting by Ukrinform. That incident is being reported separately.
The available reporting did not provide an assessment of the full extent of damage to the substations or power lines, or say when electricity would be restored to affected consumers.
The reports describe damage to major electricity infrastructure and outages across eight regions, but do not provide enough detail to establish the total scale of disruption.
— Maya Wilson, World Desk
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